Colombian Athletes - Alvin Renteria, Angela Figueroa, Arley Ibarguen, Brigitte Merlano, Caterine Ibarguen, Daniel Grueso, Darlenys Obregon, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 16. Chapters: Alvin Renteria, Angela Figueroa, Arley Ibarguen, Brigitte Merlano, Caterine Ibarguen, Daniel Grueso, Darlenys Obregon, Dayron Marquez, Diego Palomeque, Eliecith Palacios, Felipa Palacios, Gilmar Mayo, Hernando Arrechea, Jaime Aparicio, Jennifer Padilla, Johana Moreno, Lina Florez, Llimy Rivas, Luz Dary Castro, Maria Urrutia, Mirtha Brock, Noraldo Palacios, Norma Gonzalez, Paulo Villar, Princesa Oliveros, Sandra Lemos, Wanner Miller, Ximena Restrepo, Yomara Hinestroza, Zuleima Aramendiz. Excerpt: Maria Princesa Oliveros Bohorquez (born 10 August 1975) is a Colombian track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles events. Her personal bests are 13.41 seconds and 56.26 seconds, respectively. She was the gold medallist in the 400 m hurdles at the 2011 Pan American Games, at which she also won a 4x400 metres relay bronze medal in a Colombian record time. She has won numerous hurdles medals at the South American Championships in Athletics and has reached the podium at the competition in seven different years (from 1999 to 2011, with the exception of 2007). At regional level, she has been a hurdles medallist at the Central American and Caribbean Championships and CAC Games, as well as being a six-time champion at the Bolivarian Games. Born in Luruaco, Atlantico Department and raised in Turbo, Antioquia, she initially took an interest in volleyball. She showed an aptitude for hurdling at an inter-school meeting in 1991, but remained more interested in the ball game and represented her municipality in the sport. By the time she went to university, however, she had not grown tall enough to be a professional volleyball player and decided to use her athletic speed for the 400 m hurdles instead. Having come from a poor family, her mother encouraged her to focus on her science studies rather than sport, but Oliveros combined the two as a student-athlete and she developed into a regional-class hurdler. Oliveros won her first national title in the 100 metres hurdles in 1997 and won her first international medals soon after, taking both the 100 and 400 m hurdles titles as well as the 4x400 metres relay title at the 1997 Bolivarian Games. At the 1999 South American Championships in Athletics n the Colombian capital of Bogota she won bronze medals in both the hurdles events. She won the 400 m hurdles silver medal at the 2001 edition of the competition, but just missed out on the 100 m hurdles medal by coming fourth. She headed overseas fo